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Jimyung Moon 1, Anja Poehlein 2, Rolf Daniel 2 & Volker Müller 1,*
1Department of Molecular Microbiology & Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt, Germany.
2Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University, Grisebachstr. 8, Göttingen, Germany
*Corresponding author: correspondence to Volker Müller
Abstract
Anaerobic, acetogenic bacteria are well known for their ability to convert various one-carbon compounds, promising feedstocks for a future, sustainable biotechnology, to products such as acetate and biofuels. The model acetogen Acetobacterium woodii can grow on CO2, formate or methanol, but not on carbon monoxide, an important industrial waste product. Since hydrogenases are targets of CO inhibition, here, we genetically delete the two [FeFe] hydrogenases HydA2 and HydBA in A. woodii. We show that the ∆hydBA/hydA2 mutant indeed grows on CO and produces acetate, but only after a long adaptation period. SNP analyzes of CO-adapted cells reveal a mutation in the HycB2 subunit of the HydA2/HydB2/HydB3/Fdh-containing hydrogen-dependent CO2 reductase (HDCR). We observe an increase in ferredoxin-dependent CO2 reduction and vice versa by the HDCR in the absence of the HydA2 module and speculate that this is caused by the mutation in HycB2. In addition, the CO-adapted ∆hydBA/hydA2 mutant growing on formate has a final biomass twice of that of the wild type.
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